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    Do exceptional plurals change according to case?

    For example, if I were to say: вижу мои друзья wouldn't I be grammatically incorrect? Because I'm pretty sure друг is an animate noun. so if I were to use the accusative case on друзья would it change or stay the same?

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    Yes, it is animate and changes accordingly. "Вижу моих друзей." = "I see my friends."

    If you change case, you change sense: "вижу, мои друзья..." means "I see, that my friends..."
    "Россия для русских" - это неправильно. Остальные-то чем лучше?

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    It should be "я вижу моих друзей". The accusative case plural is identical to the genitive case plural for animate nouns, not to the nominative plural.
    Спасибо за исправления!

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